Chuiwan

1050–1100) of the Song dynasty, describes how a southern Tang official teaches his daughter how to dig goals in the ground and drive a ball into them.

[1] The game became popular by the Song dynasty; and a work called Wan jing (丸經, lit.

[1] There is a color image of the mural painting still preserved on the wall of a Water God Temple in Hongdong, Shanxi.

[1] Ling Honglin, a Chinese professor at Lanzhou University, suggested the game was exported to Europe and then Scotland by Mongol travellers in the late Middle Ages.

[2][3] The rules for chuiwan are remarkably similar to that of modern golf, in that players use restricted number of clubs (up to 10 in chuiwan, 14 in golf), holes are spread on terrains of varying difficulty, and marked by colored flags; and there is also strict etiquette and rules with regard to player honesty, with penalties for cheating.